Kit
The Heritage Archive Kit
A Living Family Archive System
Your family carries knowledge in their bodies. When they go, it goes. Change that.
For the person who wants to build a living archive of their family's history — not a scrapbook, but a structured system for capturing what the people they love know before that knowledge disappears.
The Name It First Experience
Your family has a history. Most of it is not written down. Some of it is in photographs with no names on the back. Some of it is in what your grandmother says at dinner that nobody has ever recorded. Some of it is already gone. The Heritage Archive Kit is a complete system built on Oral History Association standards — interview guides, documentation tools, artifact protocols, and organization frameworks. The output is not a scrapbook. It is a living archive infrastructure that does not depend on anyone's memory to survive.
You can opt into 30-, 60-, and 90-day check-ins from your account. We recommend you do — the point is to see what changed.
Sample questions
- What is the first memory that comes to you when you think about your family's history — and why that one?
- Take a moment before we begin. Think of a place from your childhood — somewhere ordinary, where everyday life happened. Can you describe it? What did it smell like, sound like, feel like to be there?
- Whose story are you most hoping to capture in this archive — and what makes you the right person to preserve it?
- What is something your family carried — a name, a practice, a story, a way of doing things — that you are afraid might not survive to the next generation?
Research basis
Oral History Association principles and best practices / Board for Certification of Genealogists standards / Ritchie oral history methodology.
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Every format asks the same questions and produces the same document.
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A real book and a pen. Write in the margins. The most permanent version of you on a page.
$89.00
eBook + journal
The full guide on any screen, with a companion journal to write your answers by hand.
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Audiobook
We read every question and every scenario aloud. For the commute, the walk, the dishes.
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Hardcoverpersonalize
The keepsake edition — sewn, ribboned, made to sit on a shelf and be returned to.
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Digital Fill + membership+membership
Answer on screen. Your responses save as you go and assemble into your finished document.
$89.00
Hands-Free Interactive + membership+membership
Listen to each question and speak your answer. We capture it. You never touch a keyboard.
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The Essential path takes you to your finished document by the questions that matter most. The Full-depth path walks every question, every scenario, every angle. Both produce the same signed document — one just goes deeper on the way there.
Essential path
Shorter sessions. The questions that go directly to the document.
Full depth
Every question. Every scenario, every angle.
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